Episodes
May 19, 2025
How to Change the World in 2 minutes
About How to change the world where we explore the history and future of invention, innovation, and era defining technology
May 20, 2025
Introduction to How to Change the World - Dissecting the History & Future of Innovation
About the show How to change the world where we explore the history and future of invention, innovation, and era defining technology
![[Stone Age] - Innovation Locks: The 5 Progress Blockers for 97% of Human History](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/682b3b86696b5d1232d698a8/1751384169230-1af523d5-a626-48cf-aeab-2d6d1121ca25.jpeg "[Stone Age] - Innovation Locks: The 5 Progress Blockers for 97% of Human History")
May 21, 2025
[Stone Age] - Innovation Locks: The 5 Progress Blockers for 97% of Human History
Timeless lessons on what really creates human progress
June 4, 2025
Innovation Richter Scale: How Much Do Technology and Ideas Change World History?
What really matters to humanity and what is just noise? How to rank the impact of a given invention, innovation or technology on humanity and the wider world.
![[~1.8 Mya] - Fire: The Innovation that Forged Humanity and Sparked World Domination](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/682b3b86696b5d1232d698a8/1751384113810-61e270f9-7bc4-4ea8-96f9-c1b818067373.jpeg "[~1.8 Mya] - Fire: The Innovation that Forged Humanity and Sparked World Domination")
June 27, 2025
[~1.8 Mya] - Fire: The Innovation that Forged Humanity and Sparked World Domination
How fire changed our species, let us take over the world and drove the industrial revolution
July 9, 2025
The Laws of Nature: 3 Rules Governing the Success of Any Organism, Idea & Technology
The three laws of biology presented in the lessons of history that determine the survival of inventions, movements and populations
![[~70,000BCE] - The Cognitive Revolution: Language and the birth of Art, Religion, Shame and Execution](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/682b3b86696b5d1232d698a8/1755526389914-2849b7c7-b325-489b-8c15-5a9f4187c884.jpeg "[~70,000BCE] - The Cognitive Revolution: Language and the birth of Art, Religion, Shame and Execution")
Aug. 18, 2025
[~70,000BCE] - The Cognitive Revolution: Language and the birth of Art, Religion, Shame and Execution
How complex language evolved with our imagination and transformed human society completely
Sept. 10, 2025
Systems Thinking: How to Dance with Chaos and Build Hope in a Changing World
Understanding the currents the change the world and our lives. Looking beyond cause and effects we study the interconnected nature of reality and what shapes outcomes all around us
![[~64,000BCE] - The Bow & Arrow with a Brief History of Stone Age Weapon Technologies](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/682b3b86696b5d1232d698a8/1760459427513-232e52c8-0fdc-4380-8083-d8014a61df56.jpeg "[~64,000BCE] - The Bow & Arrow with a Brief History of Stone Age Weapon Technologies")
Oct. 15, 2025
[~64,000BCE] - The Bow & Arrow with a Brief History of Stone Age Weapon Technologies
The evolution of weapons across ancient history as stone tools shaped humanity
Oct. 30, 2025
Thinking in Primitives: A mental model to dissect the foundations of Civilization, Humanity & Creativity
Understanding the building blocks of the world around us that unlock creativity and innovation
Nov. 17, 2025
NEWS: Patreon Is Live - Giving you more history, more science and more mind bending facts about naked chimpanzees (us)
Behind the scenes access to extra content, surprising stories and all sorts of chaos from the weird pages of history and even weirder insides of Sam's mind